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I had a lover's quarrel with the world - Robert Frost | I'm sorry you got caught in the middle. - me This poet’s words collect, arrange on a kaleidoscope spectrum. The experience of discovery through writing is the truest reward that has allowed me to grow and learn who/what I am — what other people get naturally, immediately, while I stomp around in it. Been blessed, but pushing it — envelope, world and all inhabitants away. Push buttons, find boundaries to trip traps. No clue why cat curiosity, living in your dark. (Bored, perhaps?) Now and then, push dirt out of this hole; someone/thing/entity might envision me how I need to be viewed (if I knew what that was). Cryptic, yes. Try living in my dark, find comfort amid strange, virtual, wonderful walls that tower above, tempt me to scale. Been more than I could imagine or expect here. But, achievements aren’t going on a LinkedIn wall ![]() No prize to eye; not incentivized. Dealt the worst two cards before the flop, do best with what’s in hand. My Pluggers: You are an icon here. ![]() You suffer, but you suffer brilliantly. Wow, what a great writer. ![]() It’s like plugging myself, but using other people’s (reviewers) words…Review of "Poetic Referendum(s) On Life" ![]() Your poetic muse is on fire! ![]() ![]() Published four times with one a literary journal, including… ![]() ![]() I don’t submit because it’s too much work. Truly alone, know no one cares to show they believe/support me. Lip service feeds delusion. I’ve seen a lot of smoldering and snow. Try not be cynical, work hard at openness and consideration — work, sooo…gut thing. August 28, 2006 this blog opened ▼
No specific aim going forward (2014) ▼ ![]() ![]() ![]() What? Oh, this? A rhetorical, self-motivational speech I'm working on. Don't just read the parts to construct your theory, as if to confirm (construed out of context) your opinion, mentally-stunted Neanderthal. Therapist wants me to be less negative toward myself. I see it as attacking, rather than being defensive. Fear I will chomp too many bullets unintentionally sent toward the unsuspecting. If you can be triggered for stupid reasons, then I? …just looked like me rolling around on the floor with myself. ![]() What Was NEW Who am I, you ask? My mirror knows that question, repeated daily. Just trying to create a little buzz, not boost my ego. ![]() ![]() #amwriting #poetry #blog #contest #freeverse #award #bestpoetry #freyaridings #lyrics #music #video #YouTube Can you believe it took this long for someone to put a quarter in me and push the button GET ANGRY? Mud 4 My Eye: ![]() |
Colorless, my brain seems to tattoo images and symbols, expressions of beliefs. Yet somehow, I cannot stain you, but stare and dream of original expressions they would witness, that would move them. But how to move others, when I cannot move? Your purity like snow draws my eye, my ache fingers idle. You could be my canvas that does not invite the chalk etchings of my mind. I am better than clichés and yet not creative enough. Before I can write, I must walk. And when I walk I must go outdoors. But instead I look out this window and imagine, dream of myself in another world dawning. That is where this page needs to begin. Maybe, this life was wasted? I look into my heart and see if I can write this. I pick up my instrument, purge. Made public 2.21.22 without edit, still rough, lacking detail |
Two sides — one often unused, one soiled and crumpled with bad aim lies in dust gathering near a steel receptacle. I grasp a discarded truant, smooth and recycle a forgotten, partially used master, rebuild the dream with black slate honed and angled, plying the thin blue lines. Elegant cursive dances with a poet’s eye agleam, fashion these thoughts again on a new stage, new scene — begin again, write this vision true, with the other side bearing your weight, graphite singing best a new song. 1.27.22 26 lines, free verse For Taboo Words? |
Awake and snoring Every word boring, I know. Blathering, is that me Or the television quaking Disaster after catastrophe? Should I get up, Put pants on for you, at my door Uninvited? And now who's the bore? Uncouth, trouserless, Have I brushed my teeth, my hair To welcome you near? La, la, la, la Lah-lah Blah, blah, blaw, bla... Better get up, get to bed. I have an appointment with death. The borrowed become cliche. 1/27/22 Five minute write to another, nameless song, artist |
Sound reflects Echoes in the learned soul. Feelings long ago lost Reanimated, pleasantly replayed. Thank you yesterday. Born again to A parentless nucleus, A lone atom hums Looking for further proof I once existed In another body, Bonded by a bed, Reverberating generational. Nothing To clasp with Two empty, withering hands. Purpose? Reason to write? Send electronic notes To the void I call my universe? Lay in my crib, Close ailing eyes Begging, Dream another day? Written to Glass Animals 'Gooey' Finished by song's end. Dare edit later? Who dares disturb this groove...? Oh. |
It's cement Cast and anchored Over my head Forever or until A planet squashed By a big boomerang Snap back Crush these bones In an instant As I clutch you In frames adorning A vision I cannot reanimate But in dreams And who needs The 'what ifs' anyways Turned sideways To the carpet Then down deeper Digging my hole Before the boomerang. 1.27.22 Written in the time it took Fisher to sing, "I Will Live You" You won't know where to pause Unless I edit But then It wouldn't be the same Would it? |
Pot Of Hope I know we're supposed to whisper -- but we left him in the hall. why spend $9.95 to have him when we don't think of him at all. Midday, lone shaft of light angles to reach over the rail into the corner where he lays alone, you on the phone, me in my mind wandering to and from this place. He could be be so pale, no love but neglect of a dream of ownership, the promise in a bucket with a brilliant, little sticker adorning his crib, now coffin, in this less cozy, little home. Did my dream become his, to produce and reproduce, give love we had, serve a couple in need of a little more ambience, like potpourri burning nasal passages to connected brain, no memory just credit to buy an affordable, middle class pot of hope? Death was long before adoption, a struggle for light, and taste for a drop of tap water in nutrient-rich dirt -- lifelong nap, not a rare colored iris will wink awake in the dead of these nights. 1.27.22 I think we're all destined to dream of something unrealistic for just $9.95, today... delusionally waste time, invoke it into mind-f'd reality. A little dream of ownership with no skills to cultivate life. It sounds harsh: but, fuck everybody for imposing their reality into mine... especially, the ignorant sentimental fools who are not awake tonight. (Sad I must disclaimer: metaphorically, not literally...if you even know the difference from...nevermind. Point made?) |
The tender heart of you bleeds for a purpose. My ears ache to savor labored Words pain. My hands want to feel the dark heart throbbing. My eyes aim penetrate the most guarded soul. You solidly look up. Steady, I do not shudder. Your pain lives in me now in deepest recesses. You can access any part of me, share our blood. Resistant, you do not trust the likes of me. I'll sing my sorrow for another tomorrow knowing I absorb these disturbed visions with no egress out. My arms would wrap you like blooming vines, but Nothing grows in the dark where you are now. A little sunlight will creep over the hedge between us, One day, hopefully two flowing through one another. 1.20.22 Just stream on consciousness with discipline to craft a hopeful poem. |
I could write you a eulogy every night, Pack away those tiny words in tiny type -- Click, click, clack away a story Hidden from all those redirected eyes. The steel writer gathers dust, rust. The black ribbon unspooled stains a blank page like murder scene clues. The detectives all look the other way. I'm dead here anyway, tall grass grave With interlaced daisies bright on dry blood. I had many years, many chances, But chose to piddle it all away -- A brain masturbating itself into decay, The rotting gray in numb skull withered. I scrawled my random messages on walls: White on white, black on black, now blue, As green layered by white seals my fate -- A corpse on this hard lawn, composting. When spring arrives, words fully absorb. You could ask anyone, I was never here. An obit didn't run, a toll for words spun, unpaid. Ask the editor if he keeps me in a Manila file. 1.20.22 I really don't know. Tap, tap, tap and then... |
Images hammered on the canvas, dark. But not good enough to attend. Devoid a life promised, I bust the medium. Reimagined words spurred by rampage Stain all who near the re-creation. Why didn't they tell me, no wit, You cannot change an atom? Blood purged -- collected and flushed. Hands bandaged -- heal with time. One day the sun re-arrives From perfect vantage in glowing pane -- A perfect instant -- and I knew Hopeful creativity had purpose again. 1.8.22 Never say never, just maybe, later. |
I’ll be dead tomorrow. Give me a ride aboard your flaming craft, kicked away from silent shore, adrift wherever the tide should go. Vacuous elements in observance soothe a scene. But absent, a shadow of soul in grey-fog reverie. I could die tonight on starched-tight linen where I linger many weeks. Scoop me up in your arms at dawn. Hope the sun appears. Soak me in kerosene. Burn me with oars beside. Give an old tub purpose first glimmer of morning light. Singe my last hair, cast adrift for any horizon until sunk — flamed out, black ash, lead weight. In hidden harbor, buried there, I’ll be dead tomorrow. No eulogies sung or needed. 1.5.21 1.7.22 and 2.3.22 edit Made up while listening to Frou Frou in my Covid quarantine funk, day three. |
Solemnly run, predictive models of outcomes measured by gut punches — reactions to the likes of you, sneering, who eye, approach a solemn figure recalculating the models, wondering if I can trust your ‘sort.’ Experience taught uninformed me to become cynic, who you plead drop the gloves, let guard down. Well, since you implore, it must be safe. Flinchingly, I behave like a fool, a precedent having already been set, as outcomes form from the calculator treating Math as an emotional subject. 12.30.21 |
If I could boil it down to a few words that illuminate, I would If I could write it down with the briefest definition, I would try If I could show you how I feel in just one expression, I would try emote, but, so many vistas to follow, so many stars in my eyes I often have to wait until the darkest night to get the truest vision to share with you, if you haven't tired of being at my side If I could, I would maybe, I have 12.29.21 perhaps, you have visions of your own that I haven't taken the time to listen no, I did |
my heart could be a drum you beat upon my soul clangs as my engine sputters no brakes, no steering down this street careening off the curb, headed for your house the shrubs could rip at the root flowers strewn across a hopeful garden because you could be the piston's percussion a mechanic with a wrench rachets the tight bearings of something hoping to disconnect my assembly before I drive straight into the living room of your lovely home. does love mean having the patience for something, someone built with good intention, wheeled to ride a winding road leading to your welcoming garage door, before i could separate from this machine, unlike the cyborg still coupled to beating, the rhythm of something that tells me depart and roll these hills and valleys to meet with a mechanic who could help me restore all the purpose the machine was intended for. why run-on poems like these? show the desperation to express something before interjection? could someone measure the length of these expressions? 12.29.21 |
watch that anorexic model sing hair falling out beneath a stylish leopard print cap. garments hanging off her gaunt rack — glimmering garb drapes a beleaguered soul perilously vocalizing all my fearful heart contains, a ruptured soul like yours clinging to hope someone is listening and ready with daring arms to drape this empty form. Let Go Frou Frou 12.29.21 (private) 1.5.21 edit, add (now public) |
The aching has returned to my eyes, each night I dream about you again, dream we're together in a bright nuclear vision -- a blast that slowly blinds me forces to me to forget but see a fading smile. Yearning and waking again, I would lean into your skin taste your tender lips for warmth I cannot savor in these night reveries -- of you and me flying cavorting upon a shore of an endless pale sea. your hands reach for me, taken back by determined tides. a rising sun obliterates eyes blocked by impending reality and the renewal of such purposeless days wishing I could dream the rest of life away. 12.28.21 edit later. written in 3 1/2 minutes to Sinful by Rhye |
Worn Grindstone You’re grinding an ax and I can see you’re not willing to listen sparks fly from the blade as you hone steel to suffice and I who just wants to make sure you don’t need to use that ax is willing to confide whatever you need to hear so you can let the Grindstone rest. 12.22.21 |
What is keeping the stars apart? What is in my heart (that was many times torn apart)? I cannot venture — but — (in my mind) to that glowing, wondrous galaxy, capturing a fool every night dreaming. What is keeping me, (in abstentia) from rejoining: welcoming arms, busses upon cheeks, shining faces brighter than a lone, dim one (once the sun, gleaming) before a supernova sent me? Hiding in this dark, I wonder each night where each of you are, if you'll near me, the right one heal me, heal my heart, (so) no longer vexed by (this) unwillingness to be torn apart, again. I carry it, too (I fear). 12/10/21 It doesn't have to all be sad. But it is. |
Where I've bled, a trail leads to a death bed. Regenerate my heart, or prepare as purpose for soil. Where I'm led, a thousand dull faces blink when I enter their chamber. My only indication -- noticed. Where I dream go, a dull memory of repressed guilt for foolishness inspired by comic heroes. Too late learned, they couldn't possibly exist. It murdered me to learn I couldn't possibly co-exist without compassion to inspire confession. And what would that be? Ignorant, unchangeable. Blindfold me now. Back against their wall. 12/3/21 2.4.22 edit condemn me for my ignorance. As a man, I'm but a child with two parents: one TV. Brainwashing is too strong of an accusation from one so awkwardly susceptible to think he could fit in. |